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Show EPISTLE TO THE HEDREWS. Book of the Bible Is Of the Most Intense In-tense Interest. Tho question who wroto tho opl3tlo to tho Hebrews Is ono which still retrains re-trains unanswered. Endless suggestions sugges-tions havo been made by Biblcal scholars. Tho book has been ascribed In turn to Appollos, Luke, Aquila and Priscilla In collaboration, and others; but there Is no consensus of opinion, no ono claims for his own theory that it should bo considered nnythlng but a guess. Thero is a strange fascination fascina-tion about this veiled prophet, so full of the poetry of an earlier faith, who has given to tho world his conception of Christianity to him a religion of consclonco nnd of hope, to which ho had "fled for refuge" from a decaying ceremonialism, a religion in which he had found "a strong consolation." Even to tho unlearned tho book is very literary, and thoso who know confirm con-firm this Instinctive Judgment. Tho writer drops tho threads of his argument argu-ment to find illustrations and ornaments, orna-ments, and by no means disdains flno verbal effects. Hebrews has nothing of tho ctornnl simplicity which has kept tho meaning of tho Gospel cloar among the swords nnd pens of ten thousand tneologlnns. No book in tho New Testament unless, perhaps, Rov-elatlono Rov-elatlono has suffered more from tho theory of verbal inspiration. Something Some-thing of tho writer's real mind has been, wo suspect, Irremediably overlaid over-laid with tho conclusions of dogmn-tists; dogmn-tists; but for all thoso who deslro to know what a cultivated man, who wns not St. Pnul, though about Christianity before tho end of tho first century. It remains 'of Intense Interest. London Spectator, |